Ai Linear Inc. designs software-configurable, ultra-low-power integrated circuits and associated software for machine-learning inference at or near sensors, including applications in robots, drones, AR/VR smart glasses, medical devices, and other battery-operated edge devices. The company says its technology combines analog, digital, algorithms, and software to support localized “distributed intelligence” with low-latency, low-power, and optionally zero-cloud or zero-internet operation. Ai Linear describes itself as an IC startup founded by veteran design engineers in Silicon Valley and says it has 35+ U.S. patents in analog/mixed-signal machine-learning and sensor-interface technologies.